"If you are not back by 9 am," I told him,"I'll start getting worried, thinking that you are bleeding to death somewhere between the stones," we couldn't help ourselves and laughed together.
"Aren't you afraid to sleep on the open porch, Anore?" I asked her after hearing the story how Keith had killed five mountain lions over the time that they have been living on the ranch.
"The potential danger is there, I guess," Anore started with a smile."But I don't worry about it. Falling asleep looking up at the stars and waking up to sun rays stroking my cheeks is so worth the risk! Ideally, it would be nice to have a tarp hanging above so that we wouldn't have to get up in the middle of a night when it starts raining," she added.
Almost every evening we were watching a slide show about Alaska, and listening to great stories about the times when they lived there. A soft cover book with stories and black and white photographs about life in Alaskan "bush", published by National Geographic, has been Keith's and Anore's "scrap book" of over 20 years of their life with the Eskimos. And when the old time habits set in, they stay for good. It was amazing to watch Keith "work" the bones from a cooked goat spine to a complete bareness. I can totally relate to having nothing go to waste. And then one day we had a special treat for dinner, a cow's tongue, a nostalgic reminder of special days of my childhood.
And then everybody off to swimming in the afternoon!
1 comments:
You brought me back down memory lane too with the cow tongue. My mom used to make it in my early childhood. I never got used to the texture though! :-)
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